topic Re: Is it possible to save mxd to a previous version with ArcGIS Engine? in ArcObjects SDK Questions

Is it possible to save mxd to a previous version with ArcGIS Engine?

ChrisKasturi — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:58:22 GMT

This is a post of a way to programmatically save an mxd to a previous version using ArcGIS Desktop. However, I was wondering whether there is a similar functionality for engine?

Subject Re: Programmatically save a copy
Author Jeff Matson
Date Oct 05, 2005
Message Maybe try this; it seemed to work, you'll have to open the document using a password, in this case it's "open".
'add above the application.saveas line
Application.LockCustomization "open", Nothing

Jeff Matson
GIS Programmer/Analyst
matsongis@gmail.com

Re: Is it possible to save mxd to a previous version with ArcGIS Engine?

DavidLednik — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:50:58 GMT

Doesn't look like it.

IMapDocument has Save and SaveAs methods but you can't specify a version

David

Re: Is it possible to save mxd to a previous version with ArcGIS Engine?

NeilClemmons — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:18:57 GMT

You should be able to QI from IMapDocument to IDocumentVersion, set the version property and save.

Re: Is it possible to save mxd to a previous version with ArcGIS Engine?

DavidLednik — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:19:07 GMT

True, but you would probably need to open existing MXD, change version and save it as new version?

Re: Is it possible to save mxd to a previous version with ArcGIS Engine?

NeilClemmons — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 13:22:10 GMT

That's pretty much what I said to do:

            Dim mapDocument As IMapDocument = New MapDocument
            mapDocument.Open("C:\temp\myMap_v10.mxd")
            DirectCast(mapDocument, IDocumentVersion).DocumentVersion = esriArcGISVersion.esriArcGISVersion93
            mapDocument.SaveAs("C:\temp\myMap_v93.mxd")
            mapDocument.Close()